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Support the crucial work of the Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development and help prevent and redress child maltreatment, reduce family violence, and improve the lives of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families.

Serving as a national leader in collaborations among evidence-based programs in child maltreatment prevention and intellectual and developmental disabilities.

The center’s faculty have published 461 peer reviewed articles and professional chapters, 11 books and 8 manuals, and presented 1380 papers, posters, and symposia at regional, national, and international conferences and meetings, are often serve as keynote and other invited speakers, including:

Barger, B., Rice, C., Shaw, E., Squires, J., Noyes, D. & Kavulic, C. (Panel Presentation submitted to the The Division for Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children 2015 annual meeting, Atlanta, GA. 10/11/2015). Use of diagnosed conditions for Part C early Intervention Eligibility.

Shanley, J.R. (October, 2014). The SafeCare® Model Parenting Program: An Evidence-Based Program for Child Neglect and Physical Abuse. Invited presentation at the 3rd JUCONI International Conference – For a world without violence. “Strengthening work with children and families affected by family violence: from theory to practice,” Puebla, Mexico.

Self-Brown, S. (January, 2015). Parallel Play in the Implementation of Evidence-Based practices for maltreated youth and their families. Workshop presented at the 29th Annual San Diego International Conference on Child and Family Maltreatment. San Diego, CA.